raid

See also: RAID and ráid

English

Alternative forms

• rade (Scotland)

Etymology

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
   • 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 109:

     Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

   • 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, vol. 1, p. 315:

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

   a police raid of a narcotics factory

   a raid of contractors on the public treasury

   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

3. (sports) An attacking movement.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

4. (Internet) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
   • 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku‎^[3], archived from the original on November 9, 2017:

     Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.

   • 2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch‎^[4], archived from the original on November 4, 2017:

     Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.

5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

Synonyms

• (hostile or predatory invasion): attack, foray, incursion
• (attack or invasion for making arrests, seizing property, or plundering): irruption

Derived terms

• air raid, air-raid

Translations

military: quick hostile or predatory incursion

• Finnish: rynnäkkö (fi)
• Macedonian: ју́риш m (júriš)

attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

• Arabic: غَارَة‎ f (ḡāra), غَزْوَة‎ f (ḡazwa)
• Belarusian: рэйд m (rejd), налёт m (naljót), абла́ва f (abláva)
• Bulgarian: на́бег (bg) m (nábeg), рейд (bg) m (rejd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襲擊／袭击 (zh) (xíjī), 突擊搜查／突击搜查 (tūjī sōuchá)

• Czech: razie f, nájezd (cs) m, nálet (cs) m (air raid)
• Danish: razzia c
• Dutch: razzia (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: razio
• Estonian: haarang, reid (et)
• Finnish: ratsia (fi) (for making arrests); rynnäkkö (fi)
• French: raid (fr) m, razzia (fr) f, descente (fr) f
• Galician: saída (gl) f (archaic)
• German: Razzia (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: επιδρομή (el) f (epidromí), καταδρομή (el) f (katadromí), έφοδος (el) f (éfodos)

  Ancient: ἐπιδρομή f (epidromḗ)

• Hebrew: פְּשִׁיטָה‎ f
• Hindi: हमला (hi) m (hamlā)
• Hungarian: razzia (hu), rajtaütés (hu)
• Italian: incursione (it) f, razzia (it) f, irruzione (it) f, rapina (it) f, attacco (it) m
• Japanese: 襲撃 (ja) (しゅうげき, shūgeki), 急襲 (ja) (きゅうしゅう, kyūshū)
• Korean: 습격(襲擊) (ko) (seupgyeok), 급습(急襲) (ko) (geupseup)
• Latin: excursus m
• Latvian: reids m
• Lithuanian: reidas m
• Macedonian: у́пад m (úpad), на́лет m (nálet), пре́пад m (prépad)
• Malay: serbuan (ms)
• Maori: tukinga, upokotaua
• Persian: حمله‎ (fa) (hamle)
• Polish: najście n, najazd (pl) m, nalot (pl) m
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f, ataque (pt) m, busca (pt)
• Russian: рейд (ru) m (rejd), налёт (ru) m (naljót), обла́ва (ru) f (obláva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́пад m

  Roman: prépad (sh) m

• Slovak: razia f, nájazd m
• Slovene: napad (sl) m
• Spanish: invasión (es) f, ataque (es) m, asedio (es) m, redada (es) f
• Swahili: uvamizi (sw)
• Swedish: räd (sv) c, razzia (sv) c
• Tajik: ҳамла (hamla)
• Turkish: baskın (tr)
• Ukrainian: рейд m (rejd), налі́т m (nalít), обла́ва f (obláva)
• Urdu: حملہ‎ m (hamlā)
• Yiddish: אָבלאַווע‎ f (oblave)

sports: attacking movement

• Finnish: hyökkäys (fi)

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.

   The police raided the gambling den.

   The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.

   A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.

2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

   I raided the fridge for snacks.

Derived terms

• raider
• ramraid

Descendants

• → Spanish: raid
• → French: raid
• → Italian: raid
• → Romanian: raid
• → Swedish: räd

Translations

to engage in a raid

• Azerbaijani: basqın etmək
• Bulgarian: нахлувам (bg) (nahluvam)
• Finnish: ratsata (fi) (police); rynnäköidä (military); hyökätä (fi) (general)
• German: überfallen (de)
• Hungarian: rajtaüt (hu)
• Maori: whakatoke, konihi
• Russian: налета́ть (ru) impf (naletátʹ), налете́ть (ru) pf (naletétʹ)
• Turkish: baskın yapmak (tr)
• Welsh: gwanu (cy)

to lure from another

to indulge oneself by taking from

• Finnish: hyökätä (fi)

Anagrams

• Aird, Dair, Dari, IARD, Irad, arid, dari, dira, riad

Basque

Etymology

From Spanish raid, from English raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai̯d/, [rai̯ð̞]

Noun

raid inan

1. (military) raid

   Synonym: razzia

2. long-distance race, rally

Declension

Declension of raid (inanimate, ending in consonant)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	raid	raida	raidak
ergative	raidek	raidak	raidek
dative	raidi	raidari	raidei
genitive	raiden	raidaren	raiden
comitative	raidekin	raidarekin	raidekin
causative	raidengatik	raidarengatik	raidengatik
benefactive	raidentzat	raidarentzat	raidentzat
instrumental	raidez	raidaz	raidez
inessive	raidetan	raidean	raidetan
locative	raidetako	raideko	raidetako
allative	raidetara	raidera	raidetara
terminative	raidetaraino	raideraino	raidetaraino
directive	raidetarantz	raiderantz	raidetarantz
destinative	raidetarako	raiderako	raidetarako
ablative	raidetatik	raidetik	raidetatik
partitive	raidik	—	—
prolative	raidtzat	—	—

Further reading

• "raid" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: raide

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Derived terms

• raid aérien

 

Further reading

• “raid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dira, rida

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrajd/, /ˈrɛjd/, /ˈrejd/
• Rhymes: -ajd, -ɛjd, -ejd
• Syllabification: ràid

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

Anagrams

• Idra, ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, idra, radi, rida, ridà

Romanian

Etymology

From French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.

Noun

raid n (plural raiduri)

1. raid

Declension

Declension of raid

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) raid	raidul	(niște) raiduri	raidurile
genitive/dative	(unui) raid	raidului	(unor) raiduri	raidurilor
vocative	raidule		raidurilor

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

Descendants

• → English: raid, rade
  • → Spanish: raid
  • → French: raid
  • → Italian: raid
  • → Romanian: raid
  • → Swedish: räd

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraid/ [ˈrai̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -aid
• Syllabification: raid

Noun

raid m (plural raides)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race

Further reading

• “raid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014